COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A five-year-old boy is in critical condition after being pulled from a pond on the East Side Sunday.
Police Sgt. Chris Odom tells The Columbus Dispatch that family members found the boy floating in a pond behind some houses on the city’s Far East side around 5:00 p.m. He says the child had been visiting someone and family members began looking for him after realizing he was not there.
The boy is being treated at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. His name has not been released.